Science and religion are the two most powerful forces in the world. Having them at odds… is not productive.
E. O. WILSONOf course, there is no reconciliation between the theory of evolution by natural selection and the traditional religious view of the origin of the human mind.
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Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.
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Theology made no provision for evolution. The biblical authors had missed the most important revelation of all! Could it be that they were not really privy to the thoughts of God?
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Perhaps the time has come to cease calling it the ‘environmentalist’ view, as though it were a lobbying effort outside the mainstream of human activity, and to start calling it the real-world view.
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Ants are the leading removers of dead creatures on the land. And the rest of life is substantially dependent upon them.
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If those committed to the quest fail, they will be forgiven. When lost, they will find another way.
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Companies that are willing to share, to withhold in order to further the growth of the company.
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An individual ant, even though it has a brain about a millionth of a size of a human being’s, can learn a maze; the kind we use is a simple rat maze in a laboratory. They can learn it about one-half as fast as a rat.
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In many environments, take away the ants and there would be partial collapses in many of the land ecosystems.
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There doesn’t seem to be any other way of creating the next green revolution without GMOs.
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It’s obvious that the key problem facing humanity in the coming century is how to bring a better quality of life – for 8 billion or more people – without wrecking the environment entirely in the attempt.
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The two major challenges for the 21st century are to improve the economic situation of the majority and save as much of the planet as we can.
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The world depends on fungi, because they are major players in the cycling of materials and energy around the world.
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Every kid has a bug period… I never grew out of mine.
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I had reached a point in my career in which I was ready to try something new in my writing, and the idea of a novel has always been in the back of my mind.
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Ideas emerge when a part of the real or imagined world is studied for its own sake.
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